seldom
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While our more intrepid friends treated school breaks as opportunities to see Europe or tour national parks and Civil War battlefields, we seldom left our home in Connecticut.
There were brief respites, but things seldom got easier: “The wind whipped up at noon and sleet came smacking down,” Mr. Tesson recalls.
It’s very seldom that you see a woman actually able to be selfish and show up for herself without the world going for her throat.
From Los Angeles Times
This interpretation points to artistic or cosmetic traditions that seldom survive in the archaeological record.
From Science Daily
Ward considers himself a Boglehead, or a disciple of John Bogle, the Vanguard founder who preached holding index funds and seldom making changes.
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